Social and health indicators as a measure of access to primary heathcare in Brazil
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2011-11
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The aim was to investigate the influ-
ence of social and health indicators on access to
Primary Healthcare in the Belo Horizonte Met-
ropolitan Area, Minas Gerais State, Brazil. Sec-
ondary data of 34 municipalities were analyzed;
the dependent variables were three basic health-
care indicators: coverage of the Family Health
Strategy; coverage of scheduled first dental appoint-
ment and mean annual number of appointments
in medical specialties per inhabitant. All indepen-
dent variables were analyzed using Principal Com-
ponent Analysis, with VARIMAX rotation and
Kaiser normalization. Student’s t-test was used to
compare the components originated by the factor
analysis in relation to the primary care indicators
with a significance of 5%. The development con-
ditions had significantly greater weight in cities
with low FHS coverage (p=0.022). The socioeco-
nomic conditions were weighted significantly high-
er in municipalities with high dental appoint-
ment coverage (p=0.030) and with greater mean
number of medical appointments (p=0.022). So-
cioeconomic and development conditions may be
crucial to the identification of municipalities with
the best and worst primary care indicators.
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Indicadores básicos de saúde, Atenção primária à saúde, Indicadores sociais, Health status indicators, Social indicators, Primary care
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CAMPOS, Ana Cristina Viana et al. Social and health indicators as a measure of access to primary care in Brazil. Ciência e Saúde Coletiva, Rio de Janeiro, v. 16, n. 11, p. 4349-4355, Nov. 2011.